The Famous Five?

Five lead authors, on the team writing the United Nation's (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, are concerned about the snail-like pace of climate action. They feel they should be empowered to prescribe as well as check the implementation of climate policy in the 195 states currently signed up to the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/07/we-need-power-to-prescribe-climate-policy-ipcc-scientists-say). Further stimulus for effective action on climate change is clearly required but the IPCC authors might find prescribing and checking difficult. It seems likely that the 195 states have signed up for different reasons. Some may be distinctly unhappy that a smallish cohort of scientists are directing, rather than advising on, climate policy. Would they have any real powers over and above 'naming and shaming'? Who is going to pay for the site visits? The anxieties of the scientists are very understandable but do they really want to morph into politicians? It might even add to paranoia about world government by an 'elite'!